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Charles Lamb Quotes

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me Picture Quote #1

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being Picture Quote #1

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice Picture Quote #1

Hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters Picture Quote #1

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it Picture Quote #1

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, - in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her Picture Quote #1

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A poor relation - is the most irrelevant thing in nature, - a piece of impertinent correspondency, - an odious approximation, - a haunting conscience, - a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity Picture Quote #1

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! Where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye? Picture Quote #1

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty Picture Quote #1

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility Picture Quote #1

He [the schoolmaster] is awkward, and out of place, in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours Picture Quote #1

We do not go [to the theatre], like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it Picture Quote #1

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You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own Picture Quote #1

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal Picture Quote #1

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know Picture Quote #1

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature Picture Quote #1

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them Picture Quote #1

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world Picture Quote #1

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We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name Picture Quote #1

When I consider how little of a rarity children are - that every street and blind alley swarms with them - that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance - that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains - how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. - I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them Picture Quote #1

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men Picture Quote #1

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours Picture Quote #1

How some they have died, and some they have left me, and some are taken from me; all are departed; all, all are gone, the old familiar faces Picture Quote #1

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims tidings of good to Zion Picture Quote #1

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I ask and wish not to appear more beauteous, rich or gay: lord, make me wiser every year, and better every day Picture Quote #1

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! Picture Quote #1

They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids Picture Quote #1

It is with some violence to the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage Picture Quote #1

The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley Picture Quote #1

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence Picture Quote #1

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me (Charles Lamb Quotes) A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being (Charles Lamb Quotes) The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice (Charles Lamb Quotes) Hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters (Charles Lamb Quotes) The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it (Charles Lamb Quotes) Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, - in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her (Charles Lamb Quotes) A poor relation - is the most irrelevant thing in nature, - a piece of impertinent correspondency, - an odious approximation, - a haunting conscience, - a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity (Charles Lamb Quotes) How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! Where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye? (Charles Lamb Quotes) How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty (Charles Lamb Quotes) The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility (Charles Lamb Quotes) He [the schoolmaster] is awkward, and out of place, in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours (Charles Lamb Quotes) We do not go [to the theatre], like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it (Charles Lamb Quotes) You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own (Charles Lamb Quotes) Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal (Charles Lamb Quotes) Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know (Charles Lamb Quotes) I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature (Charles Lamb Quotes) Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them (Charles Lamb Quotes) In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world (Charles Lamb Quotes) We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name (Charles Lamb Quotes) When I consider how little of a rarity children are - that every street and blind alley swarms with them - that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance - that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains - how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. - I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them (Charles Lamb Quotes) So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men (Charles Lamb Quotes) Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours (Charles Lamb Quotes) How some they have died, and some they have left me, and some are taken from me; all are departed; all, all are gone, the old familiar faces (Charles Lamb Quotes) The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims tidings of good to Zion (Charles Lamb Quotes) I ask and wish not to appear more beauteous, rich or gay: lord, make me wiser every year, and better every day (Charles Lamb Quotes) A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! (Charles Lamb Quotes) They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, compared with which Stonehenge is in its nonage. They date beyond the Pyramids (Charles Lamb Quotes) It is with some violence to the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage (Charles Lamb Quotes) The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley (Charles Lamb Quotes) This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence (Charles Lamb Quotes)

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